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H.264 encoder for PLAYBACK on sanyo xacti hd1000

iubo posted 2008 Jun 22 21:34

Hey all, I've got the Sanyo xacti hd1000, loving the camera and have finally worked out a good workflow for editing etc. I can encode back out to 720p/1080i fine after editing using staxrip and other encoders, however these files don't playback on the camera when copied back over. I think this is because sanyo use a proprietary h.264 codec or something. Just wondering if anyone knows of any encoder that will output a h.264 hd file that will playback on the xacti hd1000 camera. So I can playback the edited video on my tv in hd without burning to blu-ray etc Cheers Joe

Baldrick posted 2008 Jun 23 02:26

Could you post all the video details of a camera video file? Use for example MediaInfo.

bertoa posted 2008 Jun 23 02:32

It's not an easy job to encode your video so it fit's within the camera's playback structure. See also: http://forum.videohelp.com/topic351586.html I am still busy to get the job done trying to analyse the way thumbnails are working together with the videofiles. Panasonic or Sanyo is not of a difference, i think.

iubo posted 2008 Jun 23 06:58

Hey, thanks for the replies. Here's the output from MediaInfo: General Complete name : F:\My Stuff\Irvine\SANY0441.MP4 Format : MPEG-4 Format profile : Base Media / Version 2 Codec ID : mp42 File size : 345 MiB Duration : 3mn 58s Overal bit rate : 12.1 Mbps Movie name/More : SANYO DIGITAL CAMERA HD1000 Encoded date : UTC 2008-06-21 14:58:29 Tagged date : UTC 2008-06-21 14:58:29 Origin : Digital Camera Video Format : AVC Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec Format profile : Baseline@L3.2 Format settings, CABAC : No Format settings, ReFrames : 2 frames Codec ID : avc1 Duration : 3mn 58s Bit rate mode : Variable Bit rate : 12.0 Mbps Width : 1280 pixels Height : 720 pixels Display aspect ratio : 16/9 Frame rate mode : Constant Frame rate : 59.940 fps Original frame rate : 29.970 fps Colorimetry : 4:2:0 Scan type : Progressive Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.217 Stream size : 341 MiB Language : English Encoded date : UTC 2008-06-21 14:58:29 Tagged date : UTC 2008-06-21 14:58:29 Audio Format : AAC Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec Format version : Version 4 Format profile : LC Format settings, SBR : No Codec ID : 40 Duration : 3mn 58s Bit rate mode : Variable Bit rate : 128 Kbps Maximum bit rate : 192 Kbps Channel(s) : 2 channels Channel positions : L R Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz Resolution : 16 bits Stream size : 3.62 MiB Language : English Encoded date : UTC 2008-06-21 14:58:29 Tagged date : UTC 2008-06-21 14:58:29

flywitness posted 2008 Sep 10 15:49

i'm also trying to find out about this problem. I'm trying to get avisynth to recognise files from the xacti hd700. the mediainfo output is exactly the same as the op's. dgavcindex gives errors and DirectShowSource() also fails.

poisondeathray posted 2008 Sep 10 15:57

@iubo - you probably have to use the same specs for playback, i.e. AVC, Baseline Profile, level 3.1 or lower - this means no trellis, no CABAC, no b-frames, no I8x8 @flywitness - I can confirm both DGAVCdec and DirectShowSource() work fine with HD1000 for encoding, or did you mean for playback on the camera? If so, just emulate the settings upon encoding and it should work Do you have a recent avisynth install? h264 decoder (e.g. libavcodec turned on in the ffdshow configuration or coreavc pro installed)? If you still can't get it to work (clarify if you meant for playback or for encoding), can you post a HD700 clip to a free hosting site, such as mediafire or megaupload

Red Hat posted 2008 Sep 10 20:21

Don't use DirectShowSource, all it does is desync the video and I wouldn't except a video camera to playback files that it didn't create.

flywitness posted 2008 Sep 11 04:39

i want to playback the material with avisynth and pipe it to avidemux via wine and avsproxy. i am running ubuntu linux. I've installed ffdshow under wine. i am trying to get mediaplayer classic to play some files but so far no luck. i don't know if it's because my setup is wrong of if its because my computer just can't handle the files. the only success i had so far is using mp4camtoavi to convert my material to avi and than i can use AVISource() to open it fine. This is all well and good but i want to know why i can't index it with dgavcindex? ive done it before on m2ts files.

poisondeathray posted 2008 Sep 11 09:50

It might be a WINE and/or Linux issue. You might have better luck asking in the Linux section Did you "turn on" h264 in ffdshow configuration (set to "libavcodec")? Do you have a .mp4 splitter installed (e.g. haali media splitter, or gabest)?

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